Tex Avery Screwball: Vol 3 (blu-ray)

Another excellent, retro cartoon set by the master of funny- Tex Avery!

Very good dvd

These are cartoons from the classic era of the 1940's-50's where talent and humor had free range. After watching Tex Avery it's easy to understand why cartoons of today are so horrible.

Classic Tex Avery cartoons I loved as a child and as an adult ! They are from what some people refer to as the MGM Golden years of cartoons ! I highly recommend all Three volumes !!

Not PC though 😁

Rounding out the last of the releasable MGM Tex Avery cartoons, this is another five-star home run from Warner Archive. The quality level is back to the first volume's standards (and doesn't use mediocre preexisting transfers as the second volume mostly did). Which is wonderful, as this may be the best cross-selection of the MGM Avery filmography, starting with the first-ever release BLITZ WOLF (reports online explain how the first two minutes of this cartoon only survive as a dupe negative, but for some reason it sure looked sharper in past releases) to his last cartoon CELLBOUND (finished by his best animator, Mike Lah). Sprinkled throughout are more than a few of the all-time greatest cartoons ever made like HAPPY-GO-NUTTY, SWING SHIFT CINDERELLA, NORTHWEST HOUNDED POLICE, SLAPHAPPY LION, KING-SIZE CANARY, ROCK-A-BYE BEAR, BILLY BOY, and DEPUTY DROOPY. And as an added bonus, a not-so-all-time greatest from near the end of Avery's Warner career, CRACKPOT QUAIL, with its original soundtrack making its worldwide premiere. With the restoration standard back to the level we have a right to expect from Warner Archive*, and Tex Avery being Tex Avery, you have *zero* reason to hesitate clicking the "Buy Now" button. Whassamatta, you DEEF or somethin'!? * One caveat - there is a smattering of automatic clean-up removing bits of animation here and there, but in only one case is it offensively egregious: in NORTHWEST HOUNDED POLICE, the dot on the map representing the escaped convict wolf *completely disappears* !! Hopefully at some point this is corrected, but considering the downplaying of how the second volume mostly featured reject masters, it's doubtful.

After nearly a year, we’ve got the next batch of Avery’s MGM cartoons. This doesn’t complete the filmography, as five shorts (plus two unofficial remakes) are missing. It’s still up in the air if UNCLE TOM’S CABAÑA and HALF PINT PYGMY will see the light of day. The completist in me demands to see it happen, but I’m not that concerned if it doesn’t, since I’m satisfied with the laserdisc transfers I already own. And neither of those are quintessential Avery shorts. (LUCKY DUCKY and HENPECKED HOBOES are though) The titles presented here are among Avery’s best work at MGM. So many great cartoons all in one place. The only downside is that the color timing is off on a few titles. Some shift to a yellow tint and appear dark. Not the Metrocolor transfers though. As reported, Blitz Wolf had to be sourced from a lower resolution dupe print, but only for the first two minutes. The rest looks great. This issue can be traced back to the late 80s. Other than that the other shorts look great. For good measure, the original soundtrack for the WB short The Crackpot Quail, which was presumably rejected by the censors, is thrown in as a bonus feature. The HBO Max restoration is mixed in with the original soundtrack. Hopefully Jerry Beck’s hint of a volume four will come to pass. If they managed to get un PC gags in all the releases (especially ones that were missing from every previously accessible print), surely the more controversial shorts can be put out. A volume four could feature the best of Avery’s WB shorts which have not been yet released (i.e. Cross Country Detours and Detouring America). Fingers crossed.

Great cartoons grew up watching had not seen them in 30 years

Great animation.

Excellent probably the best volume there was so much of Tex going off big time

Alguns desenhos, como Jerky Turkey, Happy go Nutty, One Ham's Family, estão mais nítidos no YouTube ou em streaming. Parece que nem sempre se empenharam em encontrar a melhor cópia disponível para digitalizar e montar o Blu-ray. Nos volumes 1 e 2 também acontece isso, alguns desenhos meio desfocados.

Var ute efter en blu-ray utgåva. Missade att det var en vanlig dvd. Trodde att den här restaurerade utgåvan endast gjordes i blu-ray-format och av priset att döma var det svårt att tro att det var en vanlig dvd. Möjligtvis kan det skrivas och framgå tydligare i text om det rör sig om dvd eller blu-ray:) Har nu beställt en blu-rau utgåva!

Génial!